Ive been on this stupid roller coaster for about 3 years now….sober dad, drunk dad, sober dad , drunk dad. It never seems to end. I resent my parents, mostly my mom now. I mean my dad will never change and I've accepted that but my mom is the one who is ruining both our lives...

for me to speak off but I felt the need to write a few words...
My father was an alcoholic, I had to live with that every day of my life, it was not a good childhood... the sleepless nights, the worrying, the fear, the pain, the sadness... the anger and hate... oh the hate...

and for the first time ever i got sad that my father was anything but a father. The amount of suffering and tears he's given me is unmeasurable. I was away from my house for three days and I completely forgot how bad my life was. I was truly happy, I smiled all weekend. First...

I`m going to do a bit of venting here. I`ve had a lot on my mind lately and I need to just unload it somewhere, I guess. Right now, my family is struggling economically, I`m unemployed and desperately searching for a job, and I`m depressed and angry about it all. My family has...

I'm flying out to see my dad for spring break in about a week, and its just making me think about things lately. I didn't have it bad like some other people who have parents with the same disease, but i think i have my mom to thank for that. I used to be so angry at him for all...

so things with my dad have been pretty tough lately. Basically the same old stuff, a whole lot of denial. But also lately he's been saying that he "has his drinking under control now" and even though he used to have a problem he can control it now. I know he can't actually...

Until recently, the impact of alcoholism was measured by its effect on the alcoholic, by days lost from work and highway fatalities. New research has tended to concentrate on the impact of alcoholism on the family, especially the children of alcoholics. Studies have...

Born way 2 early had 2 fight 2 all along. nothings ever come easy!
Moms always busy and dads always stoned.
NO foorsteps to follow No compass to guide me.
I wish i could make you see how hard it is to become
the 2 people i never wanted to be.
My lifes laid out in front of me...

My mom has been an alcoholic my whole life, I am 24 years old. It wasn't until the past ten years when it took a hold of her.
It was right after my little sister was born when things took a turn for the worse and I was in 6th grade. My step-dad made enough money where my mom didn...

Yes, the fact that I have no bills to pay is pretty awesome, but other than that it's a living hell. My mom drives around drunk, and my sisters and I have to go pick her up. Thankfully she has not hurt anybody from doing it yet (I don't know how she hasn't) but she has wrecked...

Everyday at five o'clock, my dad would come home from work and be greeted by mother with a kiss and a glass of whiskey and soda. She would make one for herself. It was the cocktail hour for both of them. They drank all through dinner and well into the...

he drinks every day. It's hard growing up with a dad who is always drunk, who is always spending the grocery money on beer. I'm just glad he is a happy drunk. He never hit us, or anything like that. If course it didn't help that he was also schizophrenic.

The title kind of says it, really. Both my late parents were alcoholics, though not at the same time. My father was a very shy man, who felt awkward around people, and clearly drink made him feel more confident, though he would still not really talk to people, but just get...

My family history, more than anything, convinces me that genetics has a strong influence on what we do in life. It doesn't preordain our path, but it may make it much harder to choose a different path.
My father's father and grandparents were alcoholics. My father started...

I am afraid my father is going to drink himself to death. He is really violent physically and verbally to everyone. My grandfather past away recently and he was an amazing man. He was my hero my inspiration and will continue to be. My father lived with my grandparents after my...

She died when she ran into a metal telephone pole. She was drunk. B*tch deserved it. Kinda hate the fact that I had to call her my mother. My dad didn't even know she had a problem. No one did, besides me. But, then again, who's going to listen to an eleven-year old?

My father was a high-function alcoholic. He never lost his job, never was incapable, would just drink himself insensible after work. He was an ugly drunk with a bad temper - never hit anyone, but his tongue and his anger were terrifying to all his children. Many of my most vivid...

I am a high school senior, employed with part time work, and am getting another job as a licensed nursing assistant (yay!) I am completely self-sufficient now.
As the child of an alcoholic mother, I grew independent very, very quickly. My friends refer to me as the mom of the...

for my depression, BPD and distrust in people. Alcoholism is not a disease to me, it is a selfish lifestyle choice. I will never sympathize for parents who are alcoholics. Give your child away to someone who will give him or her love and protect them.

amazing. My dad was sober, working and most importantly changing, or so I thought. But I guess good things only last for a moment or two….and he's back to the bottle. Swearing, yelling, angry, lying…his daily routine. Things don't change, he won't change. I hope this time my...

I know I've said this once before (Remember that time you slammed me against the wall with your hands around my throat and then when you finally let me fall to the floor- sobbing and begging you to leave me alone- you laid the boot in?) but I ******* HATE YOU!I have tried so god...

house. She would be up all night. She used to punish me by locking me in my bedroom, aways called me mean names. I'd find the alcohol bottels all over the house. She go to jail, when she got out it was like nothing ever happened. I told her that when I was in middle school that...

married for 22 yrs, have everything I could ever want. But my mom, my best friend for life, passed away 2 weeks ago due to alcoholism. She was only 69 years old. Her liver failed. She has a few generations of alcoholics, but MY BROTHER AND I BROKE THE CYCLE! I had been in...

while I wish I was happily united with my family I am not. My father is an alcoholic and it got so bad that last year around Christmas as well my parents got divorced. I thought that this would be a big enough of a change for my dad to change but things have only gotten worse...

when I was younger.. When my mom got pregnant with my little sister they both sobered up. They got divorced eventually. Then my dad almost drank himself to death. My mom started drinking again also. My dad sobered up and doesn't drink anymore. My moms "trying to quit" but...

He has been sober for 4 years, however it still affects me today. I always push people away, never trusting them because I feel as if everyone lies to me and no one ever protected me. I grew up way too fast. At the age of 12, I was cooking dinner and doing homework with my 9...

and worse as the days go by. He will never change and I don't get why I'm trying so hard to help him when all he does is disrespect me. Im sick of it, just when I feel like I'm getting through to him, I find another bottle, under the bed or wedged in a corner of our house. I...

I literally don't want anything to do with alcohol after dealing with an alcoholic father my entire life. He has a lot of problems, but his most irritating one has got to be his alcoholism.
One recurring theme is him sitting around drinking beer and complaining about how badly...

My dad is an alcoholic and is now in the hospital. My mom says after he goes to rehab and gets out she is done taking care of him. He no longer has the mental capacity to care for himself. Which means he may be turned over to the state and placed in a shelter. I feel so many...

but I can't help but still feel incredible anger as to why my dad(or any other responsible people in my family) left me alone with my mentally ill, neglectful, extremely physically ill, alcoholic mother up until I was 15. Why would you leave a child in a situation you know they...

drunk and disorderly at a wedding, I come home to my drunk father. He was wandering in our neighbourhood until finally someone called the paramedics and of course at 3 am i get a call to pick him up. Now he's wandering about in the house, not letting anyone sleep. Im exhausted...

when she's sober.
She'd do anything for nothing, just to see someone smile. When I was young, probably three years old, when my father was still with us, she used to take pictures of us together all the time. She even made a scrapbook out of them with cute little stickers...

He's as drunk as a skunk right now. I'm here in university 5hours from home. He doesn't live with mom anymore. I hate when he calls me drunk because it always reminds me of childhood. He was never physically abusive but verbally at times. My brother would get so mad because he...

Somedays
I stare at a wall
thinking of the cells
the cells she locks herself in
the cells this demon has killed
I think to myself
why would someone
someone so smart
pour it away
it gets harder each day
to remember my childhood
I was the baby
without a bottle
it lives in...

A few alcoholics, actually. Yes, a few. My biological mother is an alcoholic, although you tell her that and her response is, "I only have one or two glasses of wine a day!" But ask her if she could live without those two glasses and she would scoff. I even challenged her to do...

I am 29 and my mom died on Thanksgiving 2005 of cirrhosis of the liver. Slowly, her liver, kidneys, and lungs failed. She was 44. There is so much I am going through as a person because of her alcoholism and it makes me so angry that I have so many problems because of it. I don't...

cirrhosis.
My mother is now drinking heavily (they had been separated for 23 years)
I noticed last year when I entvti visit my dad in hospital that my mum looked older haggard in general like a boozer.
I am from the U.K. but live in Australia.
Hence noticing the change in mum...

I learned so much from having an alcoholic father.
Like...
-A "40" costs about $2.50 and it's almost always drank with the brown paper bag still around it - the entire time.
-Don't leave change or money hanging around anywhere unless your starting a "Brew for Dad Foundation...

I grew up with the men in my family as alcoholics', my father passed away from heart failure(alcohol related). At the same time three years ago I met my boyfriend and his father took me in, so I see him as a father to me.
Good
His dad always got off work with a case of beer...

and forth with my dad. When he's sober its great and I actually like doing things for him but then he abuses my trust and faith in him and starts drinking and I end up thinking why do I waste so much time and effort on this guy? I seriously don't know what to do anymore. This is...